The Keyboard Cat Story You Never Knew | Meet the Meme

Keyboard Cat is one of the earliest and most iconic animal memes in internet history — a masterpiece of timing, music, and feline indifference. The original video, filmed in 1984 by Charlie Schmidt, features his cat Fatso wearing a blue shirt and “playing” an electric keyboard, with Schmidt moving the cat’s paws along the keys. For years, the video sat mostly unnoticed — until it was uploaded to YouTube in 2007 with the title “Charlie Schmidt’s Keyboard Cat (THE ORIGINAL)”. The internet instantl